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I find it therapeutic to watch my hard drives being defragmented.

Beat that!

I have bought a cheap weather station. Its currently lashed to a drain pipe with gaffer tape and cable ties. Its never going to be accurate because there is no place in our garden for it without the house or trees or something.

But the extra geeky bit is this:

www.batch.me.uk

Loving that Batch, whereabouts in North Swindon are you? And how much was the station?

£40 from http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Weather-Station/Pr363242000 (it's a fine instruments WH1080) and the software was free from http://sandaysoft.com/products/cumulus , didn't even install the bundled software. My website is the bog standard default web output from cumulus.

I'm guessing its not going to be too accurate being as the good ones cost £1000s, but as I have nowhere to site it unless I borrow a big ladder and strap it to the roof of the house its not got much of a chance anyway.

PS. You fail the geek test by not working out my location from the  co-ordinates. (Woodhall Park area).

Cheers for the info Batch.

Yeah I'm no geek, but the weather station plus website is quality.

Will stick a different OS on the netbook at the drop of a hat, if I feel the need

I read articles about space, and history.

Extremely.

I like tinkering with hardware. I've built my own NAS which streams music/films/tv/photos to my HTPC (also self-built), laptop, tablet & phone.

I love using batch files and macros to do even the most mundane of tasks that would only take 10 seconds to do manually, just because I can.

Oh, and I've spent the last week or so playing Civ2 on a hacked up WinXP virtual machine because it wouldn't work on Win7.

I like bird watching.

Think most of us like that

Not very I don't think.  I'm less geeky and more boring.  I do like reading, but spend most of my time doing the family man stuff - and I love it.  Quite like a beer too.  In fact, I might go and get one now...

Sometimes I play fifa and don't make any signings in the first season, to give the existing squad a chance.

I used to run a website called migrantmoth.com, where entomologists could report their sightings of migrating lepidoptera in the UK. Pretty geeky.

Having said I don't think I'm very geeky - I do make a point of reading Lord of the Rings once every two years.  It is the best book ever written though, so its not really geeky - just good sense.

I own pretty much every Pokémon game ever released and play them fairly regularly.

I also remembered to spell it Pokémon.

I still have transformers sealed in there boxes from the late 80s.

I collect comics.

I play too many fracking games.

Big fan of the Big bang theory.

I built my own web server using an old Pentium 4 desktop which resides in my lounge. It runs on Linux and has Apache, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails and most other crap apart from a control panel, so I had to learn everything through terminal.

I also (this is similar to what Samdy does) love building Automator Apps on my Mac and I use them to batch process folders of photos, as well as other Apps for watermarking, rotating, flipping and then others for uploading to specific folders on servers.

I also constantly buy Apps to enable quicker workflows on my Mac, for instance I can find a file, attach it to an email and send the email, from any point in my computer with about 5 keystrokes.

I like gadgets - amongst which I have a Garmin running watch and a Garmin bike computer.

The watch links to my heart rate monitor and after a run I religously upload to the garmin connect website and mapmyrun.com - here I also log my mileage to my trainers so I know how far I have done and when they need replacing.

The bike computer is similar to the watch but also links to my cadence sensor (pedalling speed) and HRM. Also uploaded to garmin & MMR. I've almost clocked up 2000 miles on my road bike and hence have given the drive train an overhaul.

The garmin rubber bands for the bike mount also doubles as a surprisingly good cock ring.

I've done/do most of the other crap, but fuck me barry that is king anorak.

Gayer

Right - I've decided I'm an amateur geek.  I like reading, especially about history.  I actually quite enjoy mathematics, as I love the way it is so obligingly logical.  I really, really like quizzes - especially when the subject is sport, music or history.  I own every Manic Street Preachers album, single, best of, EP etc.  However, the geekness displayed on here is too modern for me, and well out of my geek league.  I don't even understand what Barry and Samdy are talking about.  I hope I'm not the only one...

Boys are weird

I once drank beer, met girls, travelled and socialised with a real person.

I am Frank Muir and I call you a fucking liar

i have a chant for my 1st choice stiker on FM, he's generated...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/

I started a football related database in about 2006 and it's comprehensively pointless. It's an Excel spreadsheet with six tabs documenting every...

* Every player I've seen play (From Tier 1 to Tier 5)

- In order of seeing them
- Clubs I've seen them play for
- Amount of times I've seen them play/score/booked/sent off/own goal
- Nationality
- International representation and tournament summary
- Domestic honours
- Career history
- Additional notes

* Every fixture (over three tabs so I can filter more accurately)

- Date
- Level (I count tier 1 - tier 5, Friendlies + Benefit matches etc...)
- Attendance
- Referee
- Line ups (Inc. subs not used)
- Additional notes

* Every manager

- Similar tab to the players listing their managerial achievements or lack there of.

* Team overview

- Kind of like a league table based on how many times I've seen them play.

i once played a football manager game into season 2070 (i went on holiday a lot, but still) I'd still do mid season and end of season transferes every year, i think i spent more time on that than the actual games

Girl's just haven't lived

Wow, you truly are king of geeks. 8) I can imagine something like that leading to an obsessive disorder!

That's very DVish of you  :)

Yeah, leading...

Or becoming the next Reg Smeeton...

Thought I'd win this as I collect programmes (only town games but still).

Fuck me Costanza. You have too much time on your hands son.

I didn't think I'd be judged within this thread :) It's not something I usually broadcast.

"I thought we were in the trust tree, in the nest. Are we not?"

In some ways he's complementing you on your geeky OCD Costanza. You are indeed a geek amongst geeks.

Geeks don't judge. They just try and find a way of out-geeking said geek.

I played Championship Manager 01/02 to the end of the game.

I played Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on a yearly basis.

I have watched all 22 James Bond films back to back to back to back.

The most listened to tracks on both my iPods are wrestling entrance themes.

Last year I listed all my DVDs and watched them in order.

I have 23446 posts on this very forum.

Didn't mean to offend Costanza, far from it. I'm in awe of you really.

DV - you take things to a whole new level as usual. Partial to a bit of Bond myself!

Phew. Here are some screenshots of two tabs... Regular TEF'ers will note the amount of colour. It all makes sense now, right?

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[url width=900 height=344]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/RWDP1983/ThisExists2.jpg[/url]

That's impressive.

You must have a very patient girlfriend.

1. Fiancée.
2. Stockholm Syndrome is my friend.

I think it might have been our very own family ben who first posed the question as to whether it was possible to watch them all - so I gave it a go...

You know, you could do so much more with that database if it was in MS Access.

I opened an Excel spreadsheet sometime around 2005-2006 and I've not thought about moving the data to anything else since then as it's for my viewing pleasure and I'm happy with it.

Saying that, I might suffer a relapse and explore the idea of moving it.

Go on, you know you want to.

does the database pull the international caps and stuff from another source?

If not - how do you keep it up to date, or do you just update that sort of thing when you see them play and thus add to their record?

I update manually. Player info always changing so I tend to do 'big' updates in the weeks prior to a new season.

RE: Caps - You'll see some in yellow and some in blue. The caps in yellow are players still actively playing international football, the others have either retired, not player or been out of the international set-up for a while.

Constanza, are your DVDs in Alphabetical order on the shelf?

I've got my DVD's arranged by Genre, then sorted into alphabetical, I've got the same for my music on the p.c and books.

Absolutely not.

They're in more of a genre order with some sub-categories (director/cast) within.

There were only 12,656 for Newcastle vs Fiorentina?

Yep.

It was a friendly. It was abandoned after 60 minutes due to torrential rain. If it was sunny, I doubt they would have got much more than that.

Surprised me that. Anyway the database looks brilliant- no need for wikipedia!!

Constanza your geekyness is indeed bordering on legendary. I am in awe of the geek level shown. If your geekness was measured in bovine lactations it would indeed be totally legendairy!

My geekyness of late doesnt muster to much more than overclocking my already highly overclocked PC to 5.15ghz on watercooling. I don't know why I do it, I do it just because I can and to test the level that my PC will work at even though its not a 24/7 overclock.

I'm probably the leastest (is that a word?) IT person you'd ever meet.

Why make a superlative out of a superlative.

I'm at Jayo's and he's been playing x3 all day

i spend today at work turning this
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to this
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the third cab along still needs work but i had enough for 1 day

Where is that chubbs?

my work, Hitachi Capital in Newbury

interested in building my own NAS. what parts have you used and (because i know naff all about them) can i link them through my router (WNDR3800) to accept both mac & pc connections?

Last time someone tidied the lab cabling at a place I worked at it ruined a weekends testing...

PS. On the second rack you plugged the 17th blue patch cable in the third switch into the wrong socket ;)

I lost my own thread big styleee

But I bet you are still calm. Disk de-fragmentation takes at least a week when you watch it.

*Purrrr*

To be honest there probably are cables not plugged in to the correct ports. most i either remembered to wrote down but the odd one once id untangled it and was ready to plug it back in, i realised i didn't know where i'd taken it from. :-) So no doubt come Monday there will be a few confused people in the office, but i'm not fussed as im working in a different office monday :-)

I'm thinking those fans who go on holiday watching friendlies aintthat sad after reading this.

Nice work Chubbs

Ergh that brings back memories, had to do a similar thing at Bayer. Plus also with a PBX frame

when did you work at Bayer? Do you know someone called Stuart clements?

Tidying up a few cables as part of your job isn't geeky.

I just cabled up the offices of a charity in my spare time (and without being paid). Had to rip out the old cabling first and install everything from scratch including 48 network wall points, new switches and patch panels and all the cabling and trunking (throughout a 3 storey building). It works and they've now got a nice new gigabit network throughout their building.

Next up is upgrading them from SBS2003 to SBS2011.

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And it's not part of my job, I offered to do it.

Cable guy, you protest too much.

Pericarp strikes back.

I've got a thread up here (http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,39987.0.html).

I used a cheap second hand CPU/mobo. It's only 1.4Ghz, but that's plenty for my needs. The bonus is that it runs so cool it doesn't need a fan and the power consumption is tiny. I started with 512mb of RAM, but upgraded to 2gb when one of my RAM sticks decided it no longer wanted to work.

I use a 40gb HDD for the OS (FreeNAS) and 2 x 1tb HDDs for storage.

All housed in an Antec case with a cheapo PSU (again, because the power drain is so small you don't need a powerful PSU).

There's plenty of freeware OS you can use. I stuck with FreeNAS because it's fairly simple to use. From what I've read, unRaid is pretty good if you're wanting to use a massive RAID array but it's not free.

Another thing that my little NAS project added to my geekiness was that I'm now semi-proficient in Linux command line commands.

soapy tit wank at people trying to outgeek each other

It's the geek way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

cheers sam. i'll take a read

I've felt no competitive streak during this thread. I've learned that I might need to seek some kind of medical evaluation but no element of competitiveness from me.

:hmmm:

I get called a geek but I feel undeserving having read this thread.

on the subject of geeks, im not claiming it makes me more geeky that any of you but i enjoy reading this aptly named web site. www.geek.com

i think this guys is very high on the geek list though
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/1-2-million-ultimate-games-collection-appears-on-ebay-2012077/